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Glossary Information
This glossary is compiled and maintained under the stewardship of the NWCG Incident Operations Standards Working Team.This glossary will help to improve communication and provide consistency in terminology usage throughout those organizations with a mission of wildland fire or fire use management. It will also facilitate consistent use of glossary terms in publications, course development, and incident management activities.
The NWCG has approved this glossary for use by the NWCG and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that all NWCG document glossaries will be based upon the Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology for the purpose of maintaining definition consistency and clarity among documents.
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Publication of the Glossary
For those who wish to access the most up-to-date, browseable version of this glossary, it is available via the Internet at the NWCG Web site (http://www.nwcg.gov).
An electronic version of the glossary document is available for download (PDF format; 938 Kbytes) or on CD. Requests for CDs should be sent to: NWCG_Webmaster@nifc.blm.gov
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Maintenance of the Glossary
Overall stewardship of the glossary is the responsibility of the Incident Operations Standards Working Team (IOSWT). As the Glossary Steward, one of the goals of the IOSWT in keeping the glossary current is to make changes as terms and definitions are submitted by glossary users and approved for glossary inclusion.
A Glossary Change Board (charter) has been established to accept and review glossary changes and update the glossary on a regular and frequent basis.
To take full advantage of NWCG subject matter expertise, each glossary entry has been assigned to one or more Working Teams to serve as glossary custodians. Custodial responsibilities include maintaining definition currency and recommending the retirement of definitions that no longer meet NWCG needs.
This glossary is intended to be a dynamic document, updated on a regular cycle. Those wishing to submit wildland fire or fire use terminology for glossary inclusion or to recommend updating or removing existing glossary definitions may do so by sending a glossary entry change request to:
NWCG Incident Operations Standards Working Team
National Interagency Fire Center
3833 S. Development Avenue
Boise, ID 83705or by e-mailing the request to: NWCG_Webmaster@nifc.blm.gov
When submitting a glossary change request, it is requested that the NWCG Entry Change Request format [MS Word format, 71 Kbytes] be used. A sample Entry Change Request [PDF, 141 Kbytes] shows a correctly completed request.
The Glossary Change Board will review glossary entry change requests before they are incorporated into the glossary.
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Recent Updates
Date Page # Description of change March 2008 all Posted October 2007 revision. October 2007 Glossary revised. A summary of changes is available [PDF, 84 Kbytes].